WvDial

WvDial
Original author(s) Dave Coombs / Avery Pennarun
Stable release
1.61 / September 19, 2009
Repository
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Operating system Linux
Type Internet
License GNU Lesser General Public License
Website alumnit.ca

WvDial (pronounced 'weave-dial'[1]) is a utility that helps in making modem-based connections to the Internet that is included in some Linux distributions.[2] WvDial is a Point-to-Point Protocol dialer: it dials a modem and starts pppd in order to connect to the Internet. It uses the wvstreams library.[3]

WvDial uses heuristics to guess how to dial and log into a server, alleviating the need to write a login script.[4]

Graphical frontends

There are some GUI tools which allows using WvDial:

  • GNOME-PPP, a GUI dialer for GNOME
  • kppp, a GUI dialer for KDE
  • pyWvDial, a dialer based on PyGTK
  • QtWvDialer based on Qt, by Matthias Toussaint
  • x-wvdial, that uses xmessage[5][6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ freshmeat.net: Project details for WvDial
  2. ↑ "Wv Dial". alumnit.ca. Archived from the original on May 4, 2011.
  3. ↑ Wv Streams - open.alumnit.ca
  4. ↑ chat(8) - Linux man page
  5. ↑ http://mac.freecode.com/projects/x-wvdial
  6. ↑ http://www.xfree86.org/4.4.0/xmessage.1.html
  • Official website
  • "wvdial". Freecode.
  • "x-wvdial". Freecode.
  • wvdial(1) – Linux User Commands Manual
  • wvdialconf(1) – Linux User Commands Manual
  • wvdial.conf(5) – Linux File Formats Manual
  • Using wvdial with a SecurID one-shot password
  • Chestnut, an alternative dialer
  • eznet, an alternative to WvDial
  • OpenNMS Notification usage example
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